Children: Day Care
(asked on 6th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to assess the benefit to fostering families of the increase from 15 to 30 hours of free childcare provision.
This question was answered on 15th December 2017
Foster carers play a vital role in supporting some of our most vulnerable children. It is right that foster carers receive the support they need to meet the needs of the children they look after.
Foster carers are able to access the universal 15 hours of free childcare. We are considering whether it is possible for children in foster care to take up the additional 15 hours in a way that promotes the best interests of the child.